I suspect my Winnie is gone... Please help.

[FragTek]

Hey guys, I come to you for advice right now.... I was in the middle of playing CSS last night and my computer locks up and reboots. Strange, but no so strange that I worried about anything, I figured it may have been the 1.5v going to the vid card

Anyhow, when I rebooted I kept getting a BSOD during windows boot... I was like WTF? So I went and reflashed my vid card back to stock voltages/settings etc. and it didn't help one bit. I'm actually surprised I made it in to write this message!

I've been dicking in the BIOS for an hour now trying all variations of what I think could be the problem. I've lowered the speed back down to stock and ram timings back to stock and backed off ram voltage to 2.8v. After doing that, it was still BSODing, so then I got a little worried... I tried increasing/decreasing voltage etc. nothing helped. My last attempt was to underclock and see if it was a problem with the memory. I went into the BIOS set my cpu multi to 8 instead of 9 and my fsb back down to 200 which would end up being an effective 1.6ghz (200mhz below stock speed). I reboot and I can't even get the fucker to post! So I go back into the BIOS and change it back to 9 and try again, no post again! WTF?? So I manually turned it off and restarted and it decided to post and this is where I am now.... I have gotten it to load to windows a few other times but it only stays in for about 3 seconds before crashing, i'm still typing this and it hasn't crashed.

What's my problem??? I'm thinking that the Winnie may be ready to shit on me considering it wouldnt post at any cpu multi or any speed... I can't figure it out. I'm gonna go download memtest right now and run it to see if it might be the ram.

My vid card wouldn't cause it to BSOD during boot or randomly restart my computer would it???

Thx guys, quick help and suggestions are appreciated and I'll be getting rep happy to all that help me get this thing squared away.

 

[muffin]

So who won the bet about how long before he killed his machine?

Sorry Frag, you don't have much luck do you?

 

[JN]

When u get the BSOD does it stay on the screen long enough to see what it says?

I get the occasion BSOD on my machine which comes from the nvidia display driver - but i know it does that because i 've set the core speed to high and cant be arsed to change it.

However, to me it does sound like cpu/mem/mobo - but that doesnt narrow it down much - so the error on the BSOD might help.

 

[bloodthirst]

my guess is it would be the memory mabye im not sure because your CPU is watercooled and it would never overheat or get damaged by heat. mmmm dosent sounds very good

 

[FragTek]

When u get the BSOD does it stay on the screen long enough to see what it says?

I get the occasion BSOD on my machine which comes from the nvidia display driver - but i know it does that because i 've set the core speed to high and cant be arsed to change it.

However, to me it does sound like cpu/mem/mobo - but that doesnt narrow it down much - so the error on the BSOD might help.

Unfortunately it's a scrolling BSOD at 100mph and then reboots after it scrolls, no fuckin clue what it reads....

I'm running memtest as we speak to get that out of the way and cancel out the memory as being fucked.

 

[Joe]

was that under a week???

hey frag if u oced the machine pushed the ram too far it could cause hdd corruption try a windows reinstall @ STOCK!!! (every thing @ stock) and do a memtest 86 http://www.memtest86.com/ the fact it boots is a good sign that the processor isnt wrecked

 

[FragTek]

was that under a week???

hey frag if u oced the machine pushed the ram too far it could cause hdd corruption try a windows reinstall @ STOCK!!! (every thing @ stock) and do a memtest 86 http://www.memtest86.com/ the fact it boots is a good sign that the processor isnt wrecked

Yeah but why doesnt it want to post? That's the biggest lead I have right now.

 

[JN]

Unfortunately it's a scrolling BSOD at 100mph and then reboots after it scrolls, no fuckin clue what it reads....

I'm running memtest as we speak to get that out of the way and cancel out the memory as being fucked.

Did u say u can get into windows for a short while?

If so, go into my computer properties, and look for the startup & recovery options there should eb an 'Automatically reboot' option in there. Take the check out of it and see if that allows you to get the bsod.

 

[muffin]

Yeah but why doesnt it want to post? That's the biggest lead I have right now.

Motherboard or HDD?

 

[Joe]

1 sec it doesnt post!! try diff ram m8 or stupid Q did u clear the CMOS??? , but i fout y could get into windows?/memtest?

 

[FragTek]

Did u say u can get into windows for a short while?

If so, go into my computer properties, and look for the startup & recovery options there should eb an 'Automatically reboot' option in there. Take the check out of it and see if that allows you to get the bsod.

I'll go check it out once Memtest does it's thing....

@Muffin: What was that HDD program (i think u had it) that gives u all of the SMART readings?

 

[Joe]

I'll go check it out once Memtest does it's thing....

@Muffin: What was that HDD program (i think u had it) that gives u all of the SMART readings?

try seagate seatools it works wit all hdds and doesnt require u to be in win

 

[FragTek]

try seagate seatools it works wit all hdds and doesnt require u to be in win

K i'll give it a look!

 

[bloodthirst]

got nothing to do with the hard drive brother, lol either cpu mobo or ram

 

[FarFarAway]

Well Frag.....I hope your PC aint shagged mate I really do.

Loads of stuff causes BSOD's (as you know). My vid card has been known to do this (like XMS0 but I reckon this is different. Are your memory timings ok? CS:S is well fussy about those and I've had bad experiences with CS:S and different memory timings.

Have you tried downing the memory speed to 133MHz? Try that cause my MSI board did the same thing.

Try F8 before windows starts and go into safe mode...if you can get int then then you can have a poke around!

Speedfan is a windows based app that reads SMART.

 

[Joe]

got nothing to do with the hard drive brother, lol either cpu mobo or ram

that BSOD may be HDD corruption from corrupt RAM (happend to my old pc b4)

 

[FarFarAway]

that BSOD may be HDD corruption from corrupt RAM (happend to my old pc b4)

That's right...HDD's are a core part of a PC system as Wincdows saves vital settings on there....so never jump to conclusions until you know that's not what's giving the problem.

My fingers are crossed BIG time Frag...hope its all ok!

 

[PV5150]

Dude what have you done??? Perhaps its time to buy an 'ahem' Intel. No seriously I hope you get it sorted, that really sucks....

 

[FragTek]

Ok I'm back on my main rig poking around before it magicly reboots on me....

I've downloaded some HD SMART reading tools, unfortunately they only read drives that appear as physical drives, and since mine are raided and partitioned they show up as logical drives, bleh!

How should I go about checking the smart status?

 

[FarFarAway]

Ok I'm back on my main rig poking around before it magicly reboots on me....

I've downloaded some HD SMART reading tools, unfortunately they only read drives that appear as physical drives, and since mine are raided and partitioned they show up as logical drives, bleh!

How should I go about checking the smart status?

Speedfan has a tab for the HDD. There is a dropdown box and you click on your HDD and it shows all SMART data for you HDD. Yours might have two.